Until the fifteenth century, we used Old English letters in writing, which were the Roman letters, ornamented. Plain (simple in their structure): or ornamental (fancy).
Letters can either be printed: or written:, and either The third is Old English (see example at right), or letters that have an antique complex form. The second was Roman letters, or those letters which have an upright form, called Roman because they were first used in Rome. Such letters are called italic in reference to Italy, the country that first used them. The first was Italic, used to denote emphasis and importance. These letters, in turn, were primarily written or printed – as in the publication of newspapers or books – in three ways. In the English language, the letters in each pair (Aa, Bb, Cc) bear the same name and represent the same sounds, and our English alphabet has twenty-six letters made up of these capital and lower case letters. Part of this study was alphaology, or the study of the characters and functions of letters of the alphabet as the elements of literal words. In order to receive a teaching certificate, Laura Ingalls was tested in orthography, or spelling. – Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 16, “Name Cards” Printed on it in Old English letters was, Almanzo James Wilder. Besides the Roman and Italic, the most important of the varieties are Old English or Black Letter, German Text, Full-face, Antique, Script, Old Style, and Gothic. One of the varieties of printing types which compose an ordinary book.
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